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A MICHIGAN MillIonaire's Career.

A little bit of q man, not five feet
high, stood on tiptoe in front Of Cashier
Kelcey's window st the West End Hotel,
Long Branch, and timidly asked him
for pair of scissors. When they were
handed to him he pulled roll of national
bank bills from his coat pocket. They
were in sheet form, just as postage stamps
come, and he clipped off a 500 bill.
He wrote his name across its face, in the
space reserved for the Presidents auto
graph, and then coolly asked Cashier
Kelley to change it for him. Mr.. Kelcey
accommodated this maker of currency
after carefully inspecting it and seeing
that it was bona tide note of national
bank in Michigan. The little man, with
this enviable power as money maker, was
Mr.. Jacob Seligman, who is known all
through Michigan rs ''Little Jake" He
was the leading clothing merchant of the
State until he became banker and rail-
road fnancier, as we'll as one of the big
gest lumber merchants in that region. He
is now q millionaire, director in nine
banks and four railroads, and the owner
of considerable real estate in the Sault
Ste. Marie region. Some people say he
will be the richest man in the State if he
lives to realize on his investments. Yet
he went out to Michigan twenty-five
wears ago with only 500 in his pockets.
He made his fortune in strange way.
In order to start in the clothing business
he obtained credit for $500 worth OF
goods. He spent the $10O cash he had
in hiring wagon, brass band, and four
horses, and investing in circulars and ad-
vertising. He made it know that Little
Jake would reach town at certain hour
and distribute socks and overalls free from
his wagon in the public square. He told
me to-day that he emptied his wagon
load to throng of people, scattering
over their heads at the same time per-,
feet cloud of dodgers stating that he was
going to sell them all sorts of clothing for
the next month. For fifteen years Little
Jake followed this quaint scheme for
making himself known, travelling from
town to town until he had store estab.
lished in every important city in the
State. He was not only the biggest
clothing dealer, but the biggest news
paper advertiser as we'll Since then he
has made rapid strides toward becoming
the biggest banker, but he is still the
smallest man in the State in size
Philadelphia Press.
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Discipline Must BE Preserved.

A cadet at West Point was recently
arrested and confined three days in the
guard house for brushing a fly of his
nose nose while on parade. And that same
day the Indians came up to small tort
in Northwestern Dakota and chased the
man on picket duty a mile and half
and then run off twelve head of horses
and yelled so loudly that the hair of the
commanding officer, who recently came
out from Washington, turned white. And
the Government never said q word-not a
whisper. You wouldn't have known it
was anywhere around. In fact. wasn't.
Il was back at West Point running that
Door cadet all over the grounds and
wphooping Who at him till it was hoarse and
asking him what he meant by insulting
the flag by brushing that fly off his nose.
D1E0tu BeW
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WOMAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE READERS.
What an Empress Eats.

the empress of Russia Las quite as
vigorous au appetite as any member OF
her family could boast Of. But she is an
indefatigable dancer, often tiring down
all the aids-de-camp admitted to her
dancing parties, and she accompanies the
czar in his walks and rides. This keeps
her in health. If one eats heartily and
does not take it out in strong physical
excrtion, the ills to which flesh is heir
break out and have it all their own way.
A breakfast, with meat and eggs, taken
in bed in the morning, rejection later
on, dinner, followed at five by a "high"
German tea, and then a cold tray supper
of an essentially meaty kind, served at
night in her boudoir, arc too much for a
fragile woman, whether of royal or non
royal lineage, and only serve, if she be
sedentary, to nourish gouty and other
affections.
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Arctic Industries.

1t may not be generally known that
important mining operations are carried
on within the Arctic Circle. Cryollte
is brought from Greenland to Philadel'
phia by the ship load to be used in the
making of candles. At Alten, near the
North Cape in Finmark, extensive copper
mines have been worked for long time.
When it is remembered that most of the
work has to be done under ground, and
that heat is what the workmen suffer most
from, it becomes apparent at once that
mines may he almost as profitable in
those high latitudcs as they would be on
our coast. The main thing is to have
communication open once a year fol
bringing supplies and carrying away the
ores.
An engineer who visited the mines at
Alien a few years ago, to study the con:
dition in which they were worked, found
that the climate interposed no obstacle.
The mines, when fairly deep, are warmer
in winter than in summer.
In such work as has to be done above
ground, there is scarcely any Interrupt
ton. During the three dark months,
when the sun does not shine, there is no
lack of light to the eye accustomed to the
conditions. The sky is clear and starry.
and the aurora is playing most OF the time,
whatever light there is, the reflection from
the snow increases and intensitics.
More than hundred and fifty years
ago mining was carried on extensively
about the shores of the White Sea by
Saxon workmen. Silver, copper, and
lead were produced in quantities.
Now that the whale fishery has de-,
clincI, mining enterprise seems most
likely of anything to promote explora-
ton and settlement within the Arctic Cir
cle.-Youth's Companion.
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Women rs COuntcrreiters.

Women countcrfcitcrs arc of all ages
and styles. Some are very pretty and
others so homely that the witch of Endor
would look like Venus beside them.
Counterfeiting often runs in families,
and Colonel Brooks, the heal OF the
secret service, once told me that he
thought it somewhat hereditary. These
women are more successful than men in
getting rid of the counterfeit money,
and they can pass it where men would
fail. Nearly every gang OF counter
feitcrs has one or two women passcrs in
it, and in families where the counter
feiting is done the women or wives OF
the countcrfcitcrs often attempt to tut
thcspurious money in circulation.-CteFs
lund Leader.
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Green Cadets at West Point.

"Fall I'M" the command was, sharply.
You should have seen those green boys
trying to get in ranks. There were now
about 100 "beasts,' and they looked like
a herd of Texas steers, though more sub.
dued. After while the ''beasts," in
cluding my trembling self, were strung
out into long, wavering line, and ca
det corporal commenced to call the roll
of candidates. Each one was instructed
to answer, "Hcre" Some who answered,
'Present," were nipped in the bud, and
taught lesson in cadet discipline. One
poor fellow who was rather tardy in re-
plying to his name, was commanded to
Hstep out" and answer to his name"
"Step out " is the West Point slang for
''make haste" and when the "beast
actually did step out of rank, he was
surprised at the celebrity with which he
was made to step back. The formation
was for dinner, and we were retained
until the battalion of cadets had started.
They marched off, headed by the drum
corps, with all the accuracy and beauty
of q vast machine. Finally our time
came. The plcbes at the head Of the
column interpreted the meaning OF the
command: "Forward, march," and the
procession started for the large granite
structure known rs the mess hall.
1t, was like running the gauntlet. One
cadet in the rear of the line hollered at
me in a voice of special envy: Drag in
your chin about yard, mister! want
to see less slouching among you beasts;
stand up; sir!r l tried to obey. Each
plebe had his coat buttoned full up, the
palms of his hands to the front, and all
the while his toes digging up the gravel
of the area.-Phi'a1eiphin Times.
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A Turkish IadY'S Drive.

The afternoon drive is also an imagin-
ary contact with the world, though as a
matter of fact the ladies might almost as
we'll be ut home. At O'clock, or there
abouts, natty little brougham, drawn
by pair of long tailed Russian horses,
drives up to the door, and the ladies, for
they almost invariably drive two and two
"a great lady accompanied by friend
or Slave girl-are assisted into the car
riagc with Us much care as if they were
made of snow The more scrupnlous
ones will even hold parasol between
their faces and the coachman, to prevent
contamination from side glances. Most
of them, however, start with full intent
to be seen as much as possible, and after
settling themselves down on the satin
customs, and assuring themselves that the
mirror is well busted, the cigarettes and
matches in their places, the chocolate
creams or nougat fresh from the
bakery, and the bouquet sweet
and properly arranged, slip off the
habarah, and are ready to front
the gaze of the curious. The thinnest
of yushmaks covers the reddest of lips
and the chin, and well-kohled eyes keep
q smart lookout for eXchaI ges of conf
pliments by passers-by. The wives of
the Pashas do not wear the Turkish
transparent w1shmak, but cover their
mouths and the lower part Of the face
with cambria or cotton Juyyhoo tied
round the back of the head. The
Shoobra and Gezireh drives are to Cairo
much what the Row is to London, and
all the young Bcys and Pashas don their
best, and either caracole forth on pranc
ing stceds, or, more luxuriously, are
driven in the train of the harems. If the
lady is inclined to exchange flowers,
notes cigarettes or even conversation, no
hindrance is likely to be offered by the
black janitor on the boy-seat of the
driver. But talking must be done in
private, and some sidewalk, or otherwise
secluded spot, must be chosen for any
thing more than a flying passing compll-
mcnt. For in the east every man is the
guardian not only Of his own harcm but
also of everybody clsc's. A man may
thrash his own wife to death with very
doubtful chances of anybody intervening,
but he may not look at his neighbors
harem.-!Saturday ResieW.
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At the ReinS.

New York is brilliant when on wheels.
The care that is lavished on the stables
of thousands of men and women here
makes the cast drive in the park the
most brilliant and showy place in New
York. Fifth avenue is lined with har-
ness shops and the salesrooms of big car
riage factories, and no man achieves
eminence so quickly in society as the one
who shines through the perfection of his
stable. The American girl is pushing
herself forward on the east drive of the
park, as she is everywhere else. She is
not content to loll in Victoria, like her
sister in Paris, or sit primly in the corner
of o British brougham. She drives.
Nothing faxes her, and occasionally she
is what the vulgar call "a sight" For
instance, yesterday I saw big T-cart
rolling down the drive with an amount
of pomposity, noise and show that would
shame an old-time circus band-wagon.
1t was a magnificent cart. The wheels
were red and very big and heavy, the
body bottle green, and the seats higher
than the top of the average closed car
riage. There was a magnificent team of
bays to the cart, groomed till their
coats shone like satin. They were
about seventeen hands high, perfectly
matched, and they pounded the earth
with their giant hoofs like so many ami
mated pile-drivers. The big steel chains
that run from their collars to the poe of
the cart changed and ratified as they
rushed along the drive, the very
personifcation of power and force.
On the box-seat high above their heads,
and holding the big white ribbons in
her tiny hands, sat Il girl of perhaps
19 years, with slim arms, delicate feat
ures and a fragile waist She held her
hands well up, with the whip hanging
crosswise, and her feet were braced
firmly. BY her side sat serene and
placid young woman of about the same
age, who lolled back gracefully under
crimson parasol, and who seemed to re-
gard her driver with the most serene con-
fidence On the rear seat was big Eng
lish groom, with his hands clasped on
his knees and his eyes half starting from
his head. There were 10000 carriages
whirling along the park, and the girl on
the box seat.missed about 5000 of them
by nothing less than miracle. She was
able to guide the horses by Il mighty tug
on one rein or the other, but all tho rest
had to be left to their training. 1t was
evident that they scarcely knew that she
was at the other end of the rein. ---NeW
York Letter.
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Short Stories From the Chinese.

A young tiger met an old one and
said: II got hold of man to-day whose
upper parts were so tasteless and his
neither parts so sour, that, hungry as I
was, l left him in disgust. 1 wonder
what sort of man this could be?" "a
student who has had to buy his degree, I"
was the reply.
Chang and Chung mutually agreed to
start brewery. Said Chang to Chung:
"You supply the rice and 1 will furnish
the water" ''But," queried Chung, "if
the profits are divided accordingly to the
capital embarked, I am afraid it will be
difficult to apportion your share" "Oh,
I'm not afraid" said Chang; "when the
brew is over, give me the water; You
can have the remainder"
A man was seized by a tiger. The
victims son took his bow and pursued.
"Hit him in the leg" cried the father,
"else you'll spoil the market value of the
skin"
A bibulous individual, on entering a
restaurant. noticed that the wine cups
were small. After seating himself, he
gave vent to most demoniacal series Of
howls and groans. "What is the mat
ter2" asked the startled landlord. "Ah, "
answered the man, my father, hale,
hearty man, met his death at a friends
table by accidentally swallowing a small
wine cup, so whenever I see similar ones,
the memory of the sad event overcomes
me-" 1t is needless to add that the cup
was replaced by lal ger one.
A hard drinker dreamed that he had
become possessed of bottle of genuine
stuff, but, determined to enjoy it
thoroughly, he had begun to heat it.
During the heating process he awoke:
"IIoo, hoo," he groaned. ''If had
known this was to happen, I would have
drunk it cold.n
A servant did not fill guests cup to
the brim. The latter, holding it up, re-
marked: "This cup is too deep, and
broke piece of. ''How is that2" cried
the host. eff the upper part can't hold
liquor, of what use is it?" was the smart
retort. Chinese RerieW.
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widow without money, and having
served no apprenticeship to any of tho
industries by which women earn bread
and butter, began to think of putting her
pride in her pocket and turning her no.
table housekeeping talents to account by
looking for service in family as cook.
Considering the matter further, it
occurred to her that she could do better.
Securing with some little effort, the pro-
ject being novel one, a clientage of half
q dozen families in her immediate
ncighborhood that were groaning under
dyspepsia, induced by 'light housekeep-
ing" she began to send out, three times
day, delicatcly cooked and daintily
served meals. Her venture was so i'm
mediately successful that she looked up
New England housekeeper and couple
of stout-arned Swedish girls to help her,
and her business sprang, in single
night, to the utmost dimensions that she
could handle. Families that had tried
the frizzled steak broiled by the green
girl, families that were starving on meals
elaborated over the Pickering gas-jet,
families that had eaten table board" in
the basement dining-room around the
corner, families whose pocket-books
groaned at the expense of the waiter-load
sent in from hotel or restaurant, families
whose heads were business women with
out time for cooking, families tired of the
annoyonce of servants in small fiat, were
glad to he supplied with honest home
cooking, pa!atablc, and at a reasonable
price.
She has twenty one families on her list
at present, think, to whom she supplies
just that wholesome round of breakfast,
lunches and dinners that the average
housemothcr would offer to husband and
little folks. Fruit in season, in the
morning, oatmeal or wheaton grits, fish,
steak, or chops; side dish, such as
str~ed kidneys, sausage, liver and bacon,
eggs; coffee, tea Or chocolate, bread and
butter, milk and sugar. Soup, fish,
roast, three vegetables, dessert and coffee
make up the dinner, all of which is sent
out at cost of 81 a week to single per-
sons, So each to members of families,
though as what is supplied for two is
sufficient for three, the cost per thousand
is not reckoncd in multiplies of that sum,
In a way the experiment is one in CO.
operative housekeeping: for practically,
the cost of everyday living is divided
among a number of families, purchases
for all being made together, the labor for
all systematized and simplitied, and the
waste all minimized, the result being
that each family saves nearly the full
amount of the cooks wages, and is freed
from the tyranny of Castle Garden be.
sides.
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WHY She wouldn't Marry Then.

She was an extremely pretty girl, even
for St. Paulite, and her name-well,
society has ''got it on the list" She
was trying on the three-story-and-base-
ment hats now in vogue and chatting
with friend who happened in the milli-
ner's at the same time. Dear, "said the
friend, 81 thought you were to be mar
ried this June" "Well, l was to have
been; but, you see, Earl's so abominably
short, and We look so absurd together
with all my swell hats. So just told
him that l loved him rs much as ever, but
he really must wait till lower hats come
in. Yes, he was very unreasonable, but
I was firm. I told him was really very
sorry, but there would be sure to be re-
action against the high hats by next
spring-any way, willy nilly, wouldn't
marry him till they went out. ."-,T. Paul
Pioneer Press,
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womanly match-maker's eye, whispered
among themselves that, before Garfield
Quilted the White House, there would be
match made between his daughter and
his secretary.
There was a good deal of love making
reported as going on in the White House
at the time. General Garfeld's eldest
son was quite attentive to his cousin,
Miss Rockwell, the daughter of Colonel
Rockwell, and the society papers an
nounced their engagement, though it
was reported afterward that this an
nouncement was premature. Mr.. Brown
took part in the social pleasures of the
young people when he had opportunity,
and if there were partners for games or
walks he was very apt to be found with
Miss Mollie.
By General Garfeld's family Brown
was regarded almost as one of them.
Mrs. Garfield was especially fond OF him.
She thought him amost exemplary young
man, and often said that his influence
was for good. After General Garfield
was shot Browns relations with the
family became very intimate, and by his
most assiduous devotion to Garfield,
which caused him many slceplesss nights
and great labor, besides carrying much of
the burden of the Executive Office, he
gained the esteem of Mrs. Garfield so
greatly that she said after Garficld's death
that the young man had come to seem to
her almost like son. He practically be-
came one of the family at that time, and
during all of Garhcld's sickness, and after
wards at the funeral, his tenderness and
care for Miss NIollie were delicate and
constant.
There was no doubt then that the
young girl had already won Browns al
lection, though Of course she was not
then aware of it. And it was the opinion
of many who were in position to see them
that he would, when she became OF prop
or age, ask her to be his wife.
There was a brief separation after the
family had settled in Cleveland. Brown
had been intrusted by Mrs. Garfield with
much OF the business of settling the
estate, and while that was being done he
was member of her family. Miss
Mollie returned to her school books and
Brown went to Washington, where he
became a banker. But he did not re.
main in that business long. He sold out
his interest and returned to Mrs. Gar
fields family, becoming, it was said, hel
confidential agent and assistant in the
management of her fortune, which was
more than half million dollars.
Since then he has Eeen with the Gar.
fields much of the time. But not until
Miss Mollie had finished her school life
did he permit his affection so show itself.
Mrs. Garfield unquestionably knew long
ago of his love for her daughter, and it
is certain that no engagement wonid
have been permitted which had not only
her consent but her approval.
Brown is now twenty-eight and Misc
NIollie is twenty, and VIXEN they are
married there will be completed one of the
most charming of romances. They will
probably live in Cleveland, where MIR.
Brown, it is understood, has business in
terests. .-NeD York Sun.
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Dogs That Hunt Wolves.

The pack of stag-hounds recently
brought from Colorado and in use by the
Sun River Range Association is reported
doing good service in the wolf-killing
business, for which industry the dogs
were purchased. Six of the hounds
recently brought to bay double their
number of wolves and engaged them IN
battle, doing to the death all but two OF
the sheep and calf destroycrs. Not few
single combats have occurred, resulting
in uniform victory for the dog, which
has the advantage of Acetness, pluck ana
strength. A pair of hounds can 90 up
wolf in pretty short order. One Will
toss the wolf in the air, and before the
astonishcd animal is again on the ground
he is caught at neck and loin and torn
asundcr. The hounds are fed no meat,
their diet being confined to corn bread
and butterlnilk in most part The Range
Association are satisfied they have made
a good investment in these wolf,extermi-
nators. rs.-Helsna (.NontanG Herald.
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The First.

Handkerchiefs were first manufactured
at Paisley, England, in 1743.
Cricket was first played apout the year
1900. 1t was then and for long time
afterward known as "club ball"
The first dictionary was compiled by
Pa-out-She, a Chinaman, who lived
about 100 B. c.
The first voyage around the world was
made in the Nittoria, q ship which
formed part of the expedition that sailed
under Magellan in 1916.
Wooden cloth was first made in Eng
land in 1881, though its making is one of
the most ancient arts. 1t was not dyed
or dressed by Englishmen until 1867.
Post Offices were first known in Eng
land as early as 1881, and exactly hun
dred years later a penny post was in
troduced for London and its suburbs by
all upholsterer named Murray.
Spectacles were first used in the latter
part of the thirteenth century. There is
no certainty as to who was the inventor
of them, but the distinction is generally
claimed for Alessandro di 'Spina, who is
said to have made some about 1885.
Pens were first used in the seventh
century. They were, of course, quills, and
steel pens did not come into use until
1920, when the first gross of them was
sold wholesale for CT As. The quality of
these pens was greatly inferior to that of
those for which we now pay sixpence a
gross.
The first coming of money is attributed
to Pheidon, King of Argos, in S95 B. C..
Coined money was first used in that
country twenty-five years before the
Christian era, but gold was not coined
there till the eleventh century, and money
was not given the round form to which
we are accustomed until the lapse of
cnotbor bundred voars or so